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RESPONSES
The impact of HIV/AIDS on food security and rural livelihoods is devastating. A comprehensive, long-term perspective is essential if the agriculture sector is to be successful in addressing the HIV pandemic.
Preventing HIV/AIDS and mitigating its consequences must be seen as mutually supportive activities. The agriculture sector is faced with a dual challenge: supporting rural livelihoods and reducing the vulnerability of farm households to the impacts of HIV/AIDS; and satisfying national economic objectives, in which agriculture often has a key role to play.
FAO is developing a multi-dimensional agriculture-sector response to HIV/AIDS. Each response represents a strategy that consists of a set of possible programmatic activities to alleviate problems created by HIV/AIDS.
The responses
are based on a number of general principles:
 Supporting diversity, gender equality and human rights;
Reducing the stigma that accompanies HIV/AIDS; and
Building partnerships and developing creative synergies
with other sectors.
All of the strategies require the agriculture sector to be more creative in delivering services, working with other stakeholders to provide a coordinated response in which rural institutions are strengthened and community-based initiatives promoted. The people must be at the center.
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